Title: The Sweetest Place on Earth

Summary: Two people leave the hospital tying to escape their past, but what happens when they run into each other. Meredith never chose between Derek and Finn she just couldn't so she didn't chose either. Derek and Addison are divorced. Addison and Mark are together and happy.

Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own Grey's Anatomy or I would be watching it now. I don't own anything.

Preparing for Seattle friends

Meredith had been working in the hospital for a month. Izzie and Alex were coming the next day to visit the hotel and her. They didn't know she was pregnant or about Derek. Derek and Meredith were still sticking to the just friends lie, but neither would admit they were probably more than that. Derek and Meredith both turned down perfectly good dates. Meredith told Derek it was because she didn't feel comfortable dating anyone when she was pregnant. Derek said he wasn't ready for a relationship after the mess with Addison. Neither wanted to admit it was because they still love each other. They hung out alone together and in groups with Dani, Rose, Abbey, Lauren, Tyler, and Jon. They were all pretty close friends now. Her interns she loved that they could run labs and cover the ER. It made her life a lot easier, but she wasn't a Nazi. Now she and Dani were almost five months pregnant and it was getting harder for them to hide. They were going to tell all there friends in two weeks when Dani's divorce would be finalized for more than a month. The Shepherds were going to find out on Thanksgiving. They all were coming and having dinner. Derek was cooking and invited all his friends. That night they planned to say they were thankful to be friends and have a baby together without hard feelings. Meredith even invited Ellis to attend she said she might be able to come. She also mentioned bringing a date. Someone who she new for a long time he had just retired from being chief of surgery and joined her in traveling around the US giving speeches and performing rare surgeries. Meredith tried not to get her hopes up. Her mother also said that in when she lived in Seattle. Her friends never got to meet her. They were starting to think she didn't exist until she called once.

Meredith entered the hospital and went straight to Derek's office. She needed to tell him the next day Izzie and Alex would show up. She was working a 48 hour shift so they would meet her at the hospital and he couldn't be spotted by them. She knocked on his door and entered the office after he said she could.

"Hello Dr. Grey what brings you here today?" He said trying to be professional incase she had an intern with her. "Is everything alright with the baby?" He knew she usually would page unless it was personal.

"No the baby's fine and healthy. Did you get the pictures I emailed you yesterday?" She smiled reassuringly. "I came because we need to talk."

"Yes the baby is growing just fine. What do we need to talk about?" He asked wondering they didn't have any case together currently and he wasn't pushing her into a relationship with him or out of one with another man.

"Izzie and Alex are coming tomorrow. They still don't know you're here. Or that we are friends or that I am pregnant." She said almost feeling guilty every time one of her friends called she had to lie about Derek and the baby. She really hated lying to George after she slept with him their relationship was rocky. He still didn't forgive Callie for sleeping with Sloane. So who is going to say that he will forgive her for hiding this?

"Are you going to tell them you're pregnant or that I live here and were friends." He was almost upset she was hiding him and their baby. He was glad he would always have a connection to Meredith. Who knows if they would be friends today if she wasn't pregnant?

"I want to tell them all together in person. I was planning on Christmas and you are there hiding until I tell them." He looked at her with a strange face.

"You don't think that if Izzie and Alex come to visit more times between them they won't notice."

"They might notice I am not as skinny. I will just say my doctor said I should put on weight." Meredith smiled. "Are you saying I am going to look fat?"

"Not fat pregnant, but you will still turn me on." She smiled and laughed.

"When I am waddling around I will still turn you on. Yeah right." He gave her the McDreamy look. "You still turn me on to. I just thought it was the hormones."

"Well that's good to know."

"Do think I am showing now."

"Well your breasts are bigger and stomach a little fuller. I can't keep my eyes off you though. Now one who doesn't know will notice? I also know your old figure very well." He looks dazed over and is just staring at her.

"Stop pretending I am naked. Especially when I am right here.' She smiled still glad he looked at her like that. Maybe there was a chance they would come out of this as more than friends.

"Can't help it if you're gorgeous. So make my self scarce tomorrow. At what time I will schedule myself a surgery."

"Their plan is getting her at 10:00. They will go to Hotel Hershey to drop their things off and then meet me here. They will probably follow me and my interns around for an hour before I am off to have lunch with them." She turned to walk out of his office.

"Mer, do I have to be careful outside the hospital."

"No I will take care of outside the hospital its bad enough I have to ask you to be hidden in the hospital.

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That day the ER was really busy with head traumas. Meredith was praying Derek's surgery wouldn't be delayed because of all the cases. She thought to her self that today must be go out and get a head trauma day. It made her smile maybe she would have to stay away from the ER when Izzie and Alex came the next day.

Meredith's case was a routine aneurism. She had Dr. MacBeth help her today. She wasn't feeling to well the baby didn't want her to eat anything. The surgery was scheduled for early the next morning, but she was on call and had to stay the night.

Derek was supposed to be able to go home before his 6:00 surgery, but luck would have it everyone decided to get head injuries. They couldn't break bones in sports today, but instead head their heads. The ER was finally calming down and hopefully his surgery would go well the next morning. The last thing he needed was the OR's to be filled and have to wait around and possibly run into Izzie or Alex. Meredith wouldn't be too happy with him then. He looked at his watch and saw he had only four and a half hours till the surgery and decided to stay in an on call room.

He entered the on call room and saw only one other bed occupied. It wasn't a good thing when there were a lot of people in the room. There would be too many chances of beepers going off and waking up doctors who didn't need to be up. He looked closely at the other person in the room and saw it was Meredith.

"Derek I can't sleep."

"Are you on call?"

"Yeah I am for another couple hours. If I don't sleep now I won't be able to until Izzie and Alex go back to their hotel." She said and turned over to lie on her stomach.

"Do you need any medication?"

"No, but you can come over here and sleep next to me please. I would probably be able to sleep if I wasn't worried they would discover I was pregnant.' She gives him a puppy dog face and motions for him to come over.

"Meredith, where should I sleep?" She patted the spot on the bed right next to her body. "You know those are twin beds and are really small with two people in them."

"Yeah, but I want to feel your body pressed up against mine. I think the baby wants both her parents." She smiled and scooted over in the bed to make room for him.

Derek couldn't stop thinking how right that felt when he got into the bad and had his hands wrapped around Meredith's stomach. He fell asleep right away when he was next to her. They both slept great and didn't here a noise until his beeper went off for his surgery. Neither of them heard the other doctor who was now in the room enter the room. He kissed Meredith's head and left her asleep while he prepared for surgery.

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Meredith wake up feeling completely refreshed. She wished she could sleep in Derek's arms every night. She had to get out of bed and check on her interns and patients. When she walked to the nurses' station everyone seemed to stop talking, but maybe it was just in her head. Until one of the nurses asked her a question she dreaded.

"Are you and Dr. Shepherd sleeping together?" Meredith went white at this question. Had they seen them together or maybe someone discovered they were both from Seattle. Did they know she was pregnant?

"Why would you get that idea?"

"Another nurse mentioned you two seemed quite comfortable in the on call room earlier."

"We are just friends. Maybe you shouldn't listen to gossip. It's almost never true."

With that Meredith left the nurses' station not getting questioned by anyone else who witnessed her moodiness.

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The rest of the morning was a blur to Meredith as she passed time waiting for her friends. She was hoping that no traumas came in. If they had to wait around the hospital for her they were more likely they would run into Derek or hear the gossip going around that she was screwing around with him. She wasn't sleeping with him not yet anyway though she wished she was than at least they would be true. She hates rumors about her that aren't true.

She was paged to the nurses' station at 11:00. She knew exactly why she was so she took her time and stopped at the surgical board to see how long Derek's surgery was supposed to take. She had about forty-five minutes until they were done unless the patient died.

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She made it to the nurses' station five minutes after her page. She saw Izzie standing around at the desk waiting probably trying to get them to page her again and Alex and George in the chairs.

"Oh my God Mer. You're like glowing or something you must be really happy here. Seattle is not the same without you." Izzie wrapped her arms around her and smiled.

"Izz how come George is with you." Meredith whispered into her ear so that Alex and George who were approaching her wouldn't hear.

"He is upset that Callie is dating someone and she is really happy." Izzie whispered back. "Don't tell him I told you. He gets all upset."

Meredith releases Izzie from the hug and goes over to Alex.

"Evil Spawn you're marrying Dr. Model I always thought you two were made for each other." She hugs him and he smiles.

He whispers in her ear so no one else can hear. "Your either pregnant or just had breast implants. Which is it?"

"Don't tell anyone I am going to tell over Christmas." She whispered back.

"No one else should probably tell it's my job though as plastic surgeon.' He whispers back and smiles. He was surprised Izzie didn't notice as she followed Addison's foot steps. She did see she was glowing though.

Alex lets Meredith go and walks over to his fiancé. He is going to try and lead her away from the idea that Meredith is pregnant. Knowing at one time he probably would have told, but Izzie had changed him. He now didn't want to spoil her news. He of course thought she was having a baby with some new boyfriend not McDreamy.

Meredith then goes to hug George.

"I didn't think you were coming."

"Yeah I am just doing some of my best man activities." He smiled. "I can move here if you want me to. I could plan from here."

"No I am fine. I am happy for once. So how is Cardiothoracic treating you." She asked and pulled him into a hug.

"Great I love it. The hospital is not the same without you. Now we have a new head of Neurology it's a girl so I don't think she is your type. Why don't you move back home." Meredith hoped George didn't want to date her. He kept trying to suggest it she thought with him moving back her or her moving back to Seattle. She just would never think of George as anything but a friend. She of course new better now than to act on anything with him or lead him on once maybe that was except able but now she was a responsible happy person. She was almost a mother and had her own interns she had to be strong.

"So do you guys want a tour of the hospital and then my shift should be finished. Maybe you'll get to meet one of my interns." She smiled she is so proud of how much they have learned.

"Yeah that sounds good. Then we can go to Chocolate World. I saw they have special chocolate I can use for baking." Izzie smiled truly happy for the way her life was turning out.

"Then maybe we can go to a bar. Do you know any good ones Mer." George asked her she thought he was acting weird but Izzie said not to mention it so she didn't.

"No I don't I haven't drank any thing since I left Seattle. I am responsible for other people now. How responsible would it be for a resident to be hung over. It might be except able for interns but not for residents. I wouldn't want to be thought less of or lose my job." George and Izzie just stare at her. She was being really emotional about the topic. Alex just grinned knowing she probably would get drunk and sleep with inappropriate guys if she could, but from what he could tell she was happy with someone and having a baby. She was not a depressed pregnant woman she was glowing that's how he knew she was truly happy.

She was showing them around the hospital when they came across the surgical board. They were looking at it when Izzie noticed something.

"You have a Shepherd working in Neuro here. That is pretty funny. I bet you found that ironic with your past with a Shepherd." Izzie laughed along with George and Alex. She laughed to only uneasily knowing it was the infamous Dr. Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd himself.

Her friend Rose walked up to the board looking at it.

"Hey Meredith are these your friends you were talking about on taco night." She smiled and shook there hands.

"Grey I can't picture you going to taco night. Cristina would be so ashamed." Alex said making her laugh.

"And that must make you Alex. I am Rose by the way. Is this your fiancé Izzie." She points to Izzie who is still staring at the board.

"Yes that is her. She must like your surgical board. It is nice meeting someone who is nice to our Meredith."

Meredith looked at her watch and realized they had to get out of the hospital soon or they would run into Derek. He should be scrubbing out about now.

"Paging Dr. Shepherd." A voice came over the loud speaker. "Dr. Shepherd to the ER. Dr. Shepherd report to the ER."

Just then Derek ran by them almost running into George.

"That looked like McDreamy." Izzie said she only got a glimpse of him though. "It isn't him though that is just funny same name and they look a like."

"Yeah it is funny Izz. They act nothing alike." It was true though the Derek from Seattle was totally different from the Derek from Hershey.

"Why don't you guys go wait in the chairs by the nurses' station. I have to go get changed and then we can go." She smiled and pointed to the direction. "Rose are you headed that way."

"Yeah I will show them you just go get ready and have fun. I will see you on game night at Lauren's house."

"Are you one of Mer's interns." George asked.

"No I am one of her new friends I am a cardiothoracic surgeon. A resident just like you guys."

Next chapter will be them in chocolate world. You will find out what is happening in Seattle. More about Meredith's new friends maybe. Thanks for the reviews. This is the longest chapter so far.